INDIAN BOYCOTT
ENDS AN ELECTION. ',lm (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] DELHI, September 18. There was persistent and rigorous picketing by women Congress volunat Bombay yesterday. It caused a '"'serious disturbance. Repeated charges were made by the polL'e to enable "'voters: to reach the polling booths. About two hundred an fifty people were injured. Over’three ’ hundred and eighty women and eighty men were arrested. The" situation eventually became so serious that' one candidate withdrew. Than the remaining three candidates woreireturned unopposed, and the polhng'was stopped. Then further police charges' were necessary to disperse the crowds Only fourteen hundred voted out of sixty thousand/ A young Bengali named' Denesh Chandra Majumdar, was sentenced to transportation for . life by a special tribunal on a charge of conspiracy to murder a police leader named Tegaft.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1930, Page 5
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